Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Understanding the Russian past -- Lecture 2. The Russia of Peter the Great's childhood -- Lecture 3. Peter the Great's revolution -- Lecture 4. The Age of empresses : Catherine the Great -- Lecture 5. Social rebellion : the Purgachev uprising -- Lecture 6. Moral rebellion : Nikolai Novikov -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Alexander I : imagining reform -- Lecture 8. The Decembrist rebellion -- Lecture 9. Nicholas I : orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality -- Lecture 10. Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet -- Lecture 11. The birth of the intelligentsia -- Lecture 12. Westernizers : Vissarion Belinskii.
Part. 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Alexander II and the great reforms -- Lecture 14. "Nihilists" -- Lecture 15. Populists and Marxists -- Lecture 16. Paths to revolution : Lenin and Martov -- Lecture 17. Lev Tolstoy -- Lecture 18. The reign of Alexander III -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Nicholas II, the last tsar -- Lecture 20. The revolution of 1905 -- Lecture 21. Peasant life and culture -- Lecture 22. The modern city and its discontents -- Lecture 23. Fin-de-siècle culture : decadence and iconoclasm -- Lecture 24. Fin-de-siècle culture : the religious renaissance.
Part. 3. Disc 5. Lecture 25. War and revolution -- Lecture 26. Democratic Russia : 1917 -- Lecture 27. Bolsheviks in power -- Lecture 28. Civil War -- Lecture 29. Paths to socialism : the 1920s -- Lecture 30. Joseph Stalin -- Disc 6. Lecture 31. Stalin's revolution -- Lecture 32. Joy and terror : society and culture in the 1930s -- Lecture 33. The "Great Patriotic War" -- Lecture 34. The Soviet Union after Stalin -- Lecture 35. Private and public dissidence -- Lecture 36. Mikhail Gorbachev : Perestroika and Glasnost.
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